Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-18-26 hour 2

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4:40 Speaker 12: Don't be now, you never.

4:45 Speaker 13: We ran out aside a mad line, mad lone, mad line.

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5:29 Speaker 2: I love that that is called Madeline. That is Stephen de Cure and he is here with us and we're gonna talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. I go to Matt connorton dot com slash live. Soon there will be a spoiler alert. There will be a Matt Connorton dot live and there's a brand new site coming specifically devoted to the show, so uh keep an eye out for that.

6:04 Speaker 2: And Jenny is here, of course at the news table, acounted for I love that song. Oh yeah, I do too. That is really really good. And Stephen de Cura is here. Welcome.

6:14 Speaker 14: Thank you guys very much. Are you guys doing good?

6:16 Speaker 2: Good? Am I saying your name correctly?

6:18 Speaker 14: You are saying it correctly, so I thought, so.

6:20 Speaker 2: I just wanted to make sure because I remember that was a discussion last time you were here. I was like, is it to cure? Is it to Cura? Is Yeah? What is the what is the strangest I guess would be the way to put it? Uh iteration of your name that you've heard I've gotten.

6:35 Speaker 14: I've gotten a lot I've gotten. I used to got called you know one that I'm sure you could guess in high school.

6:44 Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I've been.

6:46 Speaker 14: I've been called everything under the book by the last name.

6:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Do you ever have you ever seen it misspelled on a like on a poster.

6:53 Speaker 14: I've had a Q in it before they put they've put a V in it before. Really, Yeah, I don't know where they got that.

7:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't either. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. So I love this so and thank you for reading these. By the way, I do ep oh I should too. For those who are watching on YouTube or Facebook or wherever, I'll hold that up for everybody. Uh, this is the uh oh yeah, you've got one there Actually that cameras you know what, I can actually zoom in on that camera for people who are watching the program. Let me see here. Well, well, oh, I just went way off, way off. Let me fix that if I can.

7:32 Speaker 2: Oh, No, what have I done? I just I think I just completely screwed this up. I love it enough.

7:44 Speaker 14: Caffeine.

7:45 Speaker 2: Wow, I'll tell you what. Here we go. I apologize to our audio listener on his caffeine morning. It is. It is a radio show, but somehow I can't seem to uh, okay, let me try this again. He's lost in the bit. Again. Here we go. Okay, So I am zooming in. For those of you who are listening strictly to the audio, I have to tell you what's going on. I'm zooming in on the Stephen is holding up his new EP called Toward the Sound, and there's the back of it. Very very good, very good. All right, Now that we've finally I've accomplished that, I will zoom out very carefully.

8:24 Speaker 2: Why did this come outs? Even? Or is it out?

8:28 Speaker 5: So?

8:28 Speaker 14: This is actually coming out next Friday, April twenty fourth, at twelve am. It'll be live on all music platforms and I also have CDs available as you just saw, yes t shirts the whole nine Yards. April twenty fifth, I'm having an alburb rem lease party at Brownie's Pub in Thethwin Mass I'll be playing there seven to ten pm, so I will be having all the merch there. So if anybody wants to come out and check it out and get a grab a copy, please come on out. You're more than welcome.

8:54 Speaker 2: Outstanding, Outstanding. So why did you decide to do an acoustic eph to that?

9:01 Speaker 14: So this is the first EP I've ever done. This is the first time I've ever recorded music in my entire life.

9:06 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

9:07 Speaker 14: So Towards the Sun was the first song that I ever written and recorded, and I ended up getting that released on ninety two point five the River in Boston, Massachusetts. Oh yes, and that was last September that I had that released on the Homegrown series.

9:22 Speaker 2: And that's great too. You know, we we should mention that too. That's because that's a big accomplishment because obviously they get I know this for a fact. They get a lot of submissions.

9:32 Speaker 14: They you know, it's funny. I randomly just sent it in yeah and hoping, hoping for the best, and you get an email back right away. They say, listen, we get a thousand submissions a day. Oh if if we don't respond to you in a month, don't keep sending us the same song.

9:46 Speaker 2: Right.

9:47 Speaker 14: So a month later, before a gig, I got an email from them and said Hey, congratulations, we love your song. We're going to play it. I was like, this is great. So then afterwards they told me any any other music you have, please send it inm will play it for you.

9:58 Speaker 2: Outstanding. Yeah, outstanding.

10:01 Speaker 14: So I'll be trying to get some more back on the radio. Yeah this year as well.

10:04 Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very good. So yeah, so when you were with us last time, I think you just.

10:09 Speaker 14: Played live, right I did. I did play it live. Okay, okay, yeah, I think we did play Everybody's changing and towards us on on the air as well.

10:16 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, gotcha. Yeah. I love that that song, Madeline, that's really good.

10:22 Speaker 14: That's all about my grandmother.

10:24 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay.

10:26 Speaker 14: So the line in the song, you're tattooed on me, you'll never leave because she's always she's oh so she never got to see me play a show. So yeah, now she gets to see every show.

10:35 Speaker 2: Right right?

10:36 Speaker 9: Yeah?

10:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well that's uh, that's amazing. So where did you record this because and we were talking earlier about your producer. Yeah, you have a producer you work with.

10:46 Speaker 14: Yep, Charlie Brusso. He is the owner of Woodshot Productions over in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Okay, and I started working with him about two and a half years ago. But how long I've been working on the CP Yeah, yeah, and you know I went in there. He's he was great. I told him, hey, I want to learn everything I can. Is the first time I'm doing this, you know, teach me everything you know, And he just worked with me. He was very easy going, going through the motions and teaching me how to you know, keep a click track and all those fun things.

11:21 Speaker 14: But yeah, he's he's a great He is a great guy. He has an amazing studio. All the equipment there is absolutely professional and yet standing.

11:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, how how did you how did you decide to work with him? Because you've got so many options as so many So he.

11:36 Speaker 14: Was recommended by a couple close friends of mine and the family. He's done some work with a few of my friends like Lee Richard's and a few other people that I know, Okay, mostly friends of the family though, Okay told me, hey, you should work with him. He's great. I went in there, recorded towards the son. He goes, hey, you should throw an EP together. He goes, you have what it takes for it. Yeah yeah, okay, he goes come back with like five more songs if you can.

12:00 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yep, fantastic. So what I mean in terms of time, how long did it take to do to record those five songs?

12:08 Speaker 14: So the record all five of those songs, I mean, I guess six total, but yeah, the six songs.

12:13 Speaker 2: I'm not a math.

12:15 Speaker 14: I'm a full time musician, as you guys know. So last year, this past year, I did over one hundred and eighty nine shows. Oh my god, over New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Tonya, all over the place.

12:26 Speaker 2: Good.

12:27 Speaker 14: So it took some time. Yeah, yeah, it took some time. It was about two and a half years that I've been working on this EP, okay, and it started out with Towards the Sun.

12:36 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well that's so. Is that the first single officially.

12:40 Speaker 14: Or that is the first single officially Towards the Sun?

12:42 Speaker 2: Well we should play that? What uh what do you want us to know about this before we give it a spend?

12:46 Speaker 14: So towards the Sun basically, I got this idea in my head. I've had it for many many years now and just never knew how to put into words. But it's always about It's about you know, having one eye towards the sun. No matter where you are in your life, whether you're here there, hi low doing great, no matter where you are, you're always looking for something to better yourself and looking for you know, better change, right.

13:09 Speaker 2: Right, No, that's good. It's a certainly a positive message. So has this been played anywhere on the radio.

13:15 Speaker 14: On ninety point five?

13:17 Speaker 2: That's what?

13:18 Speaker 14: This is the one that got debut?

13:19 Speaker 2: Gotcha? Gotcha? But is this the same recording or is this a new recording?

13:23 Speaker 14: The this is the newest recording.

13:24 Speaker 2: This is the newest Okay, so it's a different version than the original.

13:27 Speaker 14: Yeah, it's pretty much the same though, just better better quality.

13:30 Speaker 2: This sounds better. Yeah, very cool, very cool. All right, let's give this a spin. This is Towards the Sun. This is the first single from from the acoustic EP uh one Eye Well, one Eye towards the Sun is I of the of the EP. But Towards the Sun is the first single, all right from Stephen de Cure. Here it is.

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14:44 Speaker 4: Talking about these things we felt.

14:54 Speaker 12: Sitting on the arcadechin floor.

15:04 Speaker 3: Shiver, ran a snack from a cool glass job.

15:14 Speaker 12: Because I got out blow So I just son, because.

15:24 Speaker 16: I got faught some fun.

15:48 Speaker 4: In their wee time that we fall.

15:58 Speaker 15: And now sure I had.

16:02 Speaker 4: You God, it's sold those live street to my face,

16:18 Speaker 4: not after night, the slap in the face.

16:28 Speaker 11: And now we stand mumble you in your place, I said.

16:39 Speaker 9: Heaven Lord, the song and pay.

16:48 Speaker 12: Because I got one out of the roomer songs the Sun,

16:58 Speaker 12: because I got out oh bro awesome fun.

17:08 Speaker 2: Because I got one old bar.

17:12 Speaker 12: Decern, because I got how old son who?

17:47 Speaker 17: Because I don't wanna old.

17:51 Speaker 12: Son, because I got old.

18:01 Speaker 2: Awesome far.

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18:21 Speaker 2: A song all right, that is towards the Sun. That is Stephen de Cure from his brand new acoustic EP, one Eye Towards the Sun, and that is of course the first single and a different version of that had played on The River ninety two point five, which again that's a that's a big feather in your caps. Congratulations on that.

18:43 Speaker 14: Thank you very much.

18:44 Speaker 2: Absolutely so, you're just selling us off air that you are working on a full length.

18:48 Speaker 14: I am working on a full length album right now. Okay, I had not set of recording it. But I do have about six or seven songs that are just about fully done and ready to go. Yeah, ready to get recorded.

18:59 Speaker 2: So do you plan to work at the same studio? I am.

19:03 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm on the fence a little bit. I'd like to explore my options too. Yeah, and I was also looking at a new studio in Milford called dream Track Studio. Okay, and I have a meeting that I'm supposed to set up with them within a month or two. Okay, talk about possibly doing a recording session there, maybe staying there for a month in their apartment and just oh no kidding, writing and recording.

19:24 Speaker 2: In Milford, in Milford, New Hampshire. So I can't remember who we've talked about this with and who we haven't, but it's so weird to me in a good way. It's it's a cool thing that Milford for for those you know, because obviously we have a lot of listeners in the area, but we also have listeners online from all over the place. So for people who don't know, Milford is a relatively small town.

19:45 Speaker 14: It is very small, not a city.

19:46 Speaker 2: It's this little town, but I feel like it's it's almost like the epicenter of the music scene in New Hampshire because Milford comes up in so many conversations, this little town, but apparently there's a lot that goes on in Milford in terms of music.

20:03 Speaker 14: I got my start in Milford.

20:05 Speaker 2: It's so weird and like, who would even expect that anyone would ever say that I got my start in Milford. Yeah, this little town in New Hampshire, but it's got this vibrant music scene.

20:16 Speaker 14: And that's all thanks to Brad Bossy And do you remember Brad Boston has to be a big part of the music scene in Milford as well, and he used to do the open mic, so I'd go there. He was like, hey, you could do this for three hours. Man, He goes, you can make some money doing this. Yeah, all right, it sounds good.

20:30 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. So yeah, it's quite remarkable. I mean there's so many guests we have, Like we'll have guests come on the show who are like, you know, I'll ask him, do you have any shows this weekend? Do you want to plug? Oh yeah, we're playing in.

20:42 Speaker 14: Milford Stonecutters, Yeah yeah, Station one on one.

20:46 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, next guest comes in next hour. Oh yeah, we're playing in Milfordford. You might be recording in Milford. It's so weird, but it's cool, it's awesome. But it's like, you know, would have ever gets thought? Yeah, but uh yeah, so you're you're so you're kind of weighing your options.

21:06 Speaker 14: Yeah, way, my options right now. I love where I'm at, where I'm recording right now. It's so easy going. Charlie Brusso is an incredible dude. He's he's actually worked with run DMC and Godsmack in the past, kidding, yep, so he has some some stature under his belt. So yeah, he does a really good job.

21:23 Speaker 2: And for people who don't know, Godsmack is originally from or at least Sully is originally from tow him. Sure he is, so that's probably how how they met. But he worked with run DMC.

21:32 Speaker 14: Yes, he did.

21:33 Speaker 2: That's really cool.

21:33 Speaker 14: Ye and his mom and dad's basement when he had the studio in his mom and dad's basement at first.

21:38 Speaker 2: No kidding, did he did he explain how that came about? Because that's fast.

21:43 Speaker 14: I don't know the full story. I just know that he's worked with both of them.

21:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's wild, yep, very cool, very cool. So the songs that you're so you've got you said, you've got six or seven ready to go, ready to go, just haven't started recording.

21:58 Speaker 14: Haven't started recording it. Like I said, I've been trying to work on getting this first EP out. Yeah, take a little creative break for myself. You know, I booked, you know, a bunch of shows I play. Like I said, I did one hundred and eighty nine shows last summer, yeah, or last year, I should say. And it's it's a never ending grind.

22:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're busy. You're busy. When you when did you start? How long have you been doing this?

22:23 Speaker 14: I started so as I told you, I was doing the open Mics with Brad Boston. Yeah, put at the pasta off that was probably back in twenty sixteen. And then I started. I did like an audition with Paul Costley at the open Mics at the Wild Rover when he was doing them there. Now he does them at the Casey's Ripshack in Manchester, Okay every Tuesday, and so I did a little audition there with him. Didn't get through right away, and then the next year after Brad he said, he goes Paul, you got to get him in.

22:49 Speaker 14: Yeah, he's good enough, get him in. So and I've been doing it since like twenty seventeen, okay, okay, yep, and then COVID hit I stopped doing it obviously, and then a couple of years ago when I moved out my when I moved back into with my parents, I started doing it full time again. And yeah, I've been doing it ever since.

23:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So the grand scheme of things not that long for when when you consider like how successful you are with it, you know, be able to because not everyone can do it full time. No, So that's great. No, that's great. You're playing a lot. Yep.

23:19 Speaker 14: Tonight I'll be at The Spice in Nashua, okay, five thirty to eight thirty Okay, So I'll be playing there tonight. So if you guys want to come check it out.

23:26 Speaker 2: Check it out. Outstanding outstanding. Is that a new place I'm not.

23:29 Speaker 14: Familiar it is. It's actually so the Sun Bar and Grill in Milford, New Hampshire as well. So they're actually owned by the same people, oh as the Spice and I played there as well.

23:39 Speaker 2: Oh okay, ye, outstanding the news. I assume you're playing out so the songs that you're going to be recording, I assume you're also you're already.

23:47 Speaker 14: Playing I'm already playing them out. Yeah, I play them out once in a while.

23:50 Speaker 2: Yep. I'm always curious about that because it's funny. So some guests we have on the show, they won't play anything live. I mean, I'm sorry, Well, yeah, they won't play anything live until recorded it recorded it. I've run into that. I think that was more of a band thing. I've run into that more with bands than I think solo acoustic artists.

24:06 Speaker 14: But I like to do it to give it a try. I want to get the crowd's reaction, you know what I mean. And you're not always going to get the same reaction every time obviously, just like even if you were to play a cover song, you're not going to get the same reaction out of people.

24:17 Speaker 2: Right If people.

24:18 Speaker 14: Are liking it, that's half a battle.

24:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. So absolutely, Yeah, it's kind of like a focus group in a way.

24:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, helps me helps me be able to, you know, play it out before people even know what it is, you know what I mean, and then when people actually know what it is and it catches on. Now, I've already been playing it for years, and right I have it fully mastered.

24:36 Speaker 2: Right, right, exact exactly. I'm curious. I'd probably asked you this last time, but I'm curious about your vocal style. You've got to You've got a pretty distinctive voice.

24:45 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I don't do voice lessons or anything like that. I I kind of just like taught myself everything I know about it and just kind of I kind of wing everything, honest, I wing it, and I try to make it sound as good as possible.

24:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, because especially on that song, Madeline, it's like, you know, I'm listening to it, I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think of who you remind me of, but I can't because you don't necessarily remind me of anyone.

25:08 Speaker 14: You've got your own style. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Yeah, I don't want to be anybody else but me.

25:14 Speaker 2: Well, is there anyone who's a big influence on you vocally?

25:17 Speaker 14: Definitely Benson, Boonee, Noble Cohn obviously huge influence on me, Steely Dan, Donald Fagan always loved his vocals. Oh yeah, and then obviously Simon and Garfunkle.

25:30 Speaker 2: All Right, so, speaking of Noah Khan, tell us what you were tell us about this, you were saying, so we're telling Jenny and I have something to off air. So it's really interesting.

25:38 Speaker 14: My girlfriend and I were watching the new Noble Khan documentary the other night on Netflix. Yeah, there's an enormous amount of similarities between the two of us, and yeah, every five minutes she look at me and she's like, oh my god, Oh my god, I can't believe how much do you guys have in common? And then towards the end of the show, like back in the day, my babysitter used to ask me all the time, Steven, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I always just tell her I want to be a fire truck yeah, and so on.

26:02 Speaker 14: At like the end of the show that we were watching, he his mom said, you know, we would always ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he always used to say a fire truck man. And my girlfriend jumped up, She's like, this is really creepy. Now it was really creepy, but it was funny though. Yeah, Yeah, we have a lot of comment apparently, like like what else, like what his writing style like how he you know, I get my head a lot about like, you know, perfectionist kind of things like we were talking about off air.

26:31 Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, making sure that I'm doing everything right and it sounds correctly how I wanted to, and you know, I'm very particular about it.

26:38 Speaker 2: Yeah.

26:38 Speaker 14: Those and he and he gets in his head about about himself and while he's writing creativity you know, just about anything topics or having trouble writing.

26:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very interesting. Uh, well, we should play another track from the EP. Absolutely, what would you I'll let you pick what would uh? What would you like to play next? What's too?

26:56 Speaker 14: Chasing my dream?

26:58 Speaker 2: Chasing my dream? Okay? Anything we should know about this before we play it. All.

27:01 Speaker 14: This song is all about finding my love for music again. And once I started actually writing my own music. This is I knew once I recorded Towards the Sun, I go, I got one taste. Now I'm ready to go. Yeah, let's chase the dream.

27:15 Speaker 2: All right, let's give this a spend. Chasing the dream here and this is Stephen de Cure. Hang on everybody's technical difficulty. It's the the dance mix.

27:39 Speaker 14: Can you even to send you the other one?

27:41 Speaker 13: No?

27:41 Speaker 2: I don't know how that. No, no, no, it's a problem. It's a problem here. Okay, I think I can.

27:46 Speaker 14: I was like, that's not right.

27:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think so either. I was uh quite puzzled myself there for a moment. Let's see, I'm just sudjusting this. I don't know how that happened. I honestly don't. H Yeah, that doesn't usually occur. Okay, think I've tell me if this sounds right to you, songs me, okay, let's start that over here. It is. This is chasing the dream Stephen de Cure, No, I won't play what is going on here? There we go.

28:46 Speaker 3: I'm trying to write some songs of mean man. There's someone going with don being then spins they're out to see chasing my dream of go to feeding new things on the road, see the fighting and runny eyes, the hunger that's inside. Just some days made me realize all this stuff, scamming real man, stay in focused onbule, even

29:39 Speaker 3: wondering where this journeys leading, chasing my dream over to feed and new things on the road, see the flyre and my eyes, the hunger that's inside. Just some days mad me reiz at least you went through it.

30:24 Speaker 9: You try and.

30:27 Speaker 3: Regrets of painful Let it rise, A love of music sets for free. Got one out of a dorches in my dream, New things.

30:41 Speaker 2: On the rise.

30:44 Speaker 3: See the fire and my eyes, the hunger that's inside

30:53 Speaker 3: just some days mad me reade.

31:14 Speaker 2: That is chasing my dream. That is Stephen de Cure from the the new Acoustic k P one I Towards the Sun And we have Stephen de Cure with us live in the studio. And yeah, that's a great song.

31:26 Speaker 14: You very much.

31:26 Speaker 2: You were telling us about the your league guitar player on the album, My.

31:30 Speaker 14: Lead guitar player, Thith McGinnis. He does an incredible job. This man is a true professional. I can't say enough great things about him. He is the owner of Mojo's Music. Okay, I don't know if you've ever heard of Jo's. Absolutely, Oh he runs Majo's Music. He does a bunch of stuff with like the School of Rock there.

31:48 Speaker 2: Oh excellent, yeah, excellent. Now how did you come to work with him? How did that happen?

31:52 Speaker 14: He's the family friend of ours as well.

31:54 Speaker 2: Oh good, yeah, I got I got a lot of.

31:57 Speaker 14: Good family friends that are in the business.

31:59 Speaker 2: And yeah, now why is that? Are your parents' musicians?

32:02 Speaker 14: Also? No, my mom and dad just have a lot of good close friends. Oh okay, yeah, it's yeah, like growing up, these people have known me my whole life and I'm still friends with them to this day, and they've just become my friends.

32:14 Speaker 2: You know. Oh that's great. That's that's really good. That's really good. And then so now how many of the songs as Jeff planned too? Too? Okay, okay, yeah, it's it's interesting, you know, because obviously you want to on songs like this, you want to have somebody who who can do a solo that really adds to it without doing too much much.

32:37 Speaker 14: Yeah.

32:37 Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's a conversation you guys had or if he just he probably knew it instinctively.

32:41 Speaker 14: So like when I say, this man is such a professional. He I sent him Chase my dream. Yeah, he didn't even do it in the studio. He sent he recorded it himself, sent it to me, I sent it to Charlie. Yeah, and he put it all together and he just did it like on the spot. And then we went into the studio and did everybody's changing together there. Yeah, and he laid the soul down in one take.

33:04 Speaker 2: It was I was.

33:05 Speaker 14: He was like, how was that? And I was like that's it? Yeah, I go that's perfect right, It don't change anything.

33:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. Yeah.

33:12 Speaker 14: He knew exactly where to go with it, like professional.

33:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, who else plays on the album? Anybody else?

33:18 Speaker 17: Are?

33:18 Speaker 15: So?

33:19 Speaker 14: The only other person that I have on the album is Artie Kenyan. He does the bass for me in Madeline Okay yep, and then it's just me that does all the other instruments in the singing.

33:30 Speaker 2: Okay, now why did you have him in for Madeline for the bass part?

33:34 Speaker 14: I could not get a bassline to save my life.

33:36 Speaker 2: No, I was.

33:38 Speaker 14: I was spending hours and hours trying to figure out a bassline.

33:40 Speaker 2: I had.

33:41 Speaker 14: Something wasn't going and I was just like, you know what, let me just have somebody come in and do it for me. Yeah, you know what I mean, make my life a little easier. It was during the summertime when things were very hectic for me.

33:51 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt.

33:52 Speaker 14: No, I really didn't have the time to do it.

33:54 Speaker 2: Yeah. Was he able to come up with something pretty quick that? Yep?

33:56 Speaker 14: Yeah, yep, he came He just kind of you know, filled it in for me, yeah, you know, even it out.

34:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't oh excellent. Was of these songs, what was the most challenging one too? Maybe it was Madeline because of the base part. I don't know. Was there one that was more challenging than the others.

34:11 Speaker 14: I would have to say Madeline was probably the most challenging. That and I mean they were all pretty challenging, really you. I mean, it was my first time ever recording in a studio and doing this, so yeah, I was learning as I was going. Yeah, you know what I mean.

34:29 Speaker 2: So what was the most challenging aspect of it for you?

34:34 Speaker 14: Trying to make sure I got the vocals right every time? Like like I'd always like get in my head and be like, can we do another take? Can we do another take? He's like, stop asking me. He's like, we can always do another take, right, You're paying for it. He's like I was like, okay, right, So that was just me being shy, right right, But yeah, I mean that was pretty much the hardest thing. And then following like a click track, you know what I mean, Yeah, getting comfortable with that. But now I'm pretty much good with that.

34:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I mean, did you feel any pressure in terms of because obviously you're not just singing, you know, you're playing a lot.

35:05 Speaker 14: Yeah, I would, I trust me. I had to do multiple, multiple takes on the guitar, so he would have me play and sing it first. Then he would have me do, hey, let's do two takes of just you playing it and not singing. Okay, Then I had to you know, my brain, don't sing? Don't sing?

35:25 Speaker 2: That is that difficult? It is when you're not used to that.

35:29 Speaker 14: It is because in some ways, like when you're in your flow, like you know what I mean, when you're in your zone and you're singing and you're you got the emotion going with it, and then when you're not, and it's like, okay, now I'm just like trying to keep on time with it, right and so it's like I don't have that same emotion going into it with the right hand.

35:44 Speaker 2: What about when when do you record the vocals? Are you just vocals?

35:48 Speaker 14: I just have it playing in my in my headset the track, and then I just sing the song over it.

35:53 Speaker 2: So is that weird?

35:54 Speaker 14: That's actually easier, that's easier. That's easier. I'm way more comfortable doing it that way. Okay, it's the guitar playing and doing the double tracks that took me a little bit.

36:03 Speaker 2: No, that makes sense. That makes sense. And then so do you have any kind of it's probably too early to know, like do you have any kind of a long term idea of when the full.

36:13 Speaker 14: Album might be I'd say a couple of years, A couple of years, I'd say at least two years, because because.

36:18 Speaker 2: This took a while just to do this.

36:20 Speaker 14: Yeah, it took a while, playing, a lot of money, took a lot of money, yeah, a lot of you know, organizing, and you know, because I was I wrote towards the Sun, I didn't have any other songs, yeah, and he was like, see what you can do, So and then I had to get to work. My dad and I started working on writing songs together. Yeah, and he's been a big help with me on that good. So he helps me a lot with like some of my lyrics and things like that, and then I do all the music, so he'll help me with some of the lines and like just kind of trying to get it to the direction of like where I want to take it.

36:53 Speaker 14: Yeah, the message that I want to deliver to people.

36:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. Ye will the when you do the album, will these songs be included on the full album or will the full album be.

37:04 Speaker 14: The full album is going to be completely different songs? Oh okay, extullent, completely different songs, excellent.

37:09 Speaker 5: Yeah.

37:10 Speaker 2: Will it be mostly acoustic like the EP or do.

37:13 Speaker 14: You I'm not sure yet. I'd like to get a band together. Oh okay, that's my next thing. I'd like to get a band together so I can hopefully go play these these albums out live actually, yeah, for people to actually hear and not just hear acoustically.

37:28 Speaker 2: Right now, when you play live, is it always just it just always just me and the guitar?

37:31 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah yeah, And I do pretty well with these ones, you know, off the album, so sure, sure yeah.

37:37 Speaker 2: They lend itself to that. Yeah, but yeah, it makes sense. So when you record the album, you might you might have things that you want to be able to play with a full band.

37:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, and get some other ideas and you know, connect with some other people. Have you ever played in a band? No, no, never played in a band. Ever played in a band. I have always been the one man band.

37:55 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it can be. It can be hard. I mean, the hardest thing I think is just the logistics of it. You know, when you when you you know, when you're trying to book shows and you got to.

38:04 Speaker 14: The comfortability with it, you got to be you know, yep, the communication. You know, everybody's gonna be in the same page like nowadays, Like yeah, like the David Crole says, he's like, go get some friends and go start a garage band, right, you know what I mean? Right, and like make sure that you guys do it. You guys want to actually do it right. I'm not going to do it unless you actually want.

38:22 Speaker 2: To do it right, exactly. Yeah. I mean as far as finding people to play with, you know, there's so much as you know, there's so much incredible talent around.

38:29 Speaker 14: Absolutely absolutely, and yeah, like I said, I'm looking for people that are that want to do it and be professional about it. Yeah, actually go somewhere with it.

38:37 Speaker 8: You know.

38:37 Speaker 2: The hardest thing will be the finding a drummer. Yeah, And that comes up all the time on the show, like every every drummer, it's it's sort of a running joke, but it's not even really a joke, Like every drummer is in ten bands. You know, and my theory has always been, and regular listeners hear me say it all the time. But if you uh, you know, when you're growing up and you first develop an interest in playing an instrument, if you approach your parents and you say I want to play drum, that's you know that and maybe the tuba or the two things they are gonna actively try to talk you out of right away.

39:05 Speaker 14: It's funny because the first thing, the first thing I did in school was played the snare drum. Oh no kidding, Yeah, I wanted to play drums growing up before ye were playing guitar.

39:13 Speaker 2: Me too. I had a snare drum when I was a kid. I was banging on yeah, before I ever picked the guitar and yep, yep, totally yeah, yeah yeah, So that's that's my theory about why that is. But yeah, bass players can be a little hard to find, but drummers are very you know, to find one who's available when you need them, that's that's the that's the difficult part of that. No, no, but I think that's great. We should play another track from the EP. What do you want to play? News?

39:38 Speaker 14: Let's do everybody's changing Since we were just talking about Jeff McGinnis and his solos.

39:43 Speaker 2: Ah, yes, yes, everybody's changing. And if you are just joining us, of course we have Stephen to cure here with us, live in studio and we're talking and playing some songs. From one eye towards the sun is great acoustic ep and here it is. Everybody's changing. Sit in her hair.

40:27 Speaker 17: In the chair thing again, won the wear hair. This world school socks of wool, horror, all low round, watch.

41:03 Speaker 3: These buildings, grumble to do.

41:08 Speaker 7: Graha, saverybo.

41:17 Speaker 2: These change the true the mountain, smile and face. Be An's world is change.

41:33 Speaker 3: The way we waity the witty week come wrong.

41:53 Speaker 2: See this he.

41:56 Speaker 9: Spreading through the crowd.

42:05 Speaker 17: Affording boots.

42:09 Speaker 2: Are a lot.

42:11 Speaker 18: No two parties, says storm, designed to divine.

42:31 Speaker 3: Friends and family.

42:34 Speaker 7: For you on Shi, Everybody's change.

42:50 Speaker 3: Yourful londs and small empies.

42:56 Speaker 2: Me at the world is change jail.

43:02 Speaker 16: Whenny rain wedding rain, wedding.

43:06 Speaker 12: Rain were go.

43:59 Speaker 3: Ballocks shuns holding all those strings. We'll just bob bits in this bullet go ring.

44:24 Speaker 9: Lead with your hall heart loves wear it all big games.

44:36 Speaker 4: Let's stand together.

44:40 Speaker 9: And learn to love fock game.

44:46 Speaker 2: That is everybody's changing and that is a Stephen de Cure and he is with us in studio and we're playing some songs from his new EP, one Eye Towards the Sun, and uh yeah, that's that's really good. I love what's that last line, Let's.

45:02 Speaker 14: Let's stand together, Let's learn to love again?

45:04 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So what's the significance of that? I mean, other than the obvious?

45:08 Speaker 14: But so I mean, yeah, other than the obvious, Like, you know, everything that's going on in the world, youah, and we all just come together, right and figure this out, you know what I mean, and stop being so hateful towards each other. Yeah, what I mean, they please and thank you. Hold the door for somebody, Let somebody go when they're driving, you know what I mean, on the road, you know, yeap, just have common courtesy for people.

45:28 Speaker 2: It's not hard, exactly exactly. Yeah, very good.

45:33 Speaker 14: And uh yeah, what's it Jeff what Jeff McGinnis.

45:36 Speaker 2: Jeff McGinnis, Yeah, he was a guitar playing on that.

45:38 Speaker 14: It's just so absolutely incredible.

45:39 Speaker 2: So perfect. Tasteful would be a good word, yes, to describe it, very very tasteful. Jenny is leaving us. She's not gonna be here for the Uh. In the third hour, we're gonna be talking with Charles Richardson about WrestleMania and uh, you know, but we didn't get a chance to watch SmackDown yet, So Jenny doesn't want to hear the spoilers.

45:58 Speaker 14: Yes, I don't need I don't need that. I didn't get to watch it either. I watched it once in a while, So yeah, I look, I look forward to the to the WrestleManias. Oh yes, I've always been a fan of the kids the big weekend.

46:08 Speaker 2: They'll mess up my stories, you know. When I was a kid, my aunties will be like, don't call during my stories, you know, general hospital. But these are my stories. I don't want spoilers to mess up my stories. That's right, that's right, You'll be safe. All right, good Jenny leaves us. But yes, we are talking with with Stephen de Cure And so where are you so this weekend you've got so you've got a show for our live listeners. You've got a show later today.

46:35 Speaker 14: Yeah, later tonight the Spice in Nashville, New Hampshire. Okay, that's five thirty eight thirty okay, all right, And it's where the old KFC used to be.

46:43 Speaker 2: Oh, gotcha, gotcha? Do you have like where do you There's a lot of places to play around here obviously, but do you venture out of New Hampshire?

46:54 Speaker 8: I go.

46:54 Speaker 14: So I play all over the place in Massachusetts. I do Muddy Waters Pub, I do Brown Pub and with Thwin. I actually just got put on the as an opener for July twenty fourths. Feel the Dreams Festival. Oh very good in Sell, New Hampshire. So that'll be my first festival that I'll be playing.

47:14 Speaker 2: And then.

47:16 Speaker 14: Yeah, I play all over the place, Laconia, Massachusetts, everywhere, Yeah, everywhere.

47:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent. I'm glad you're going to be playing a festival because I always say festivals are great because not only do you obviously get in front of a crowd that you know might not otherwise know you, So there's an opportunity to really build your fan base, but also the connections that you make, the people that you make with in the industry. You know, other performers, managers, you know, promoters, everybody you know that it's such a you know it. It can't be overstated just how much of an opportunity it is to play a festival.

47:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I tell everybody to get on as many festivals as you can.

47:51 Speaker 14: Absolutely, Like I said, I was trying to get on there last year. They didn't have a spot for me. And then I started working with Massive Entertainment Group. Okay, they booked for like all the like the casino and all that, so I'll be playing there as well and may actually I just booked there and then so they called me and said, hey, we you're on the list and we'd like to have you for the festival.

48:10 Speaker 2: So yeah, oh that's fantastic.

48:12 Speaker 16: I was.

48:12 Speaker 14: It was really, it was really nice opportunity.

48:14 Speaker 2: Why is it? Do you know why it's called the Field of Dreams Festival.

48:17 Speaker 14: I'm honestly not sure.

48:18 Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just curious because when I when I hear Field of Dreams, I think of the movie. Yeah, and I just wonder if there's a baseball connection. Maybe it's not sure.

48:26 Speaker 14: I think it's more of like a community thing, okay, because it's like a free concert pretty much. Yeah, and they do a bunch of like community stuff in Salem with like you know, parks for the kids and stuff like that, dog parks, all kinds of stuff for the community.

48:40 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Oh that's very positive. That's good. That's good, very good. Do you know how long you're set is going to be at that?

48:47 Speaker 14: So I go on at five forty five I'm opening for wild Side, the band wild Side okay, And and then I played till six thirty, so about forty five minutes set.

48:56 Speaker 2: Oh okay, Oh that's great.

48:58 Speaker 6: Yeah.

48:58 Speaker 2: Actually at a festival, forty five minute this is a pretty good, pretty good sat of time. Yeah, that's that's really good.

49:03 Speaker 14: Good for you, Good for you, thank you.

49:05 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite place to play? You know?

49:08 Speaker 14: So I just started playing. I actually just played there last night. It's this place called the Sweet Hill Farm and plast out in New Hampshire, Okay. And it's a farm and they do barbecue there and they you go into the farm they have obviously live music, and you sit right in the greenhouse and you eat barbecue and drink bottles of wine.

49:29 Speaker 2: Okay.

49:29 Speaker 14: It's it's amazing. It's such a unique and cool spot. It's one of my favorite spots that I've been playing.

49:35 Speaker 2: Okay so lately. Yeah, okay, yeah, is that somewhere new or is that.

49:39 Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a new place for me, and I'm not sure that it's a new spot they did just start doing live music.

49:44 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so it's new for that, gotcha. Yeah, Oh that's that's great. The nice thing about you know, being a solo act, a singer songwriter is it. You know there's so many like you'll never you'll never run out of place to play, and you'll never stop finding new opportunities.

50:01 Speaker 14: Absolutely, And you know I was telling myself too, I go. You know when I started recording the CP, I said, I can either play at bars the rest of my life. I know I can do that and do the covers.

50:11 Speaker 8: I go.

50:11 Speaker 14: But that's about as far as I'm gonna go with it. Yeah, I want to go further. Yeah, I mean I want to be on a bigger stage. I'd like to sell on an arena someday. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that's that's the goal exactly. Absolutely.

50:23 Speaker 2: Do you do covers? Do you have covers?

50:25 Speaker 14: I do a bunch of covers. Do you have Teddy Swims, Jim Croche, Simon and Garfunkle beatles? Yeah, just about everything.

50:33 Speaker 2: Do you do any obscure ones that where where people sometimes aren't sure that.

50:37 Speaker 14: Yes, Yeah, like I do, so I do few off o Donald fake and soul?

50:42 Speaker 2: Well, oh no kidding, I do.

50:44 Speaker 14: Uh, it's weather in my head? Play that one I do, Sweet Shoty Blue Eyes, Yeah, I do. Going to California by Led Zeppelin. You know a lot of like stuff that people really wouldn't attempt.

50:58 Speaker 2: To play out live.

50:59 Speaker 14: Yeah, technically all the time, you know what I mean. But yeah, I try to challenge myself with it when you do that.

51:04 Speaker 2: Does anyone ever come up to you after a show and they don't, like they have no idea to cover and they're like, oh, I really like that song I've had.

51:09 Speaker 14: I've had a lot of people like so when I play at Tellvi's and Epping, Yeah, they put me through like the speakers, like just right through the house music. Okay, right, so people will be in the bath they're like, oh, we thought we were listening to the radio, but me that's playing.

51:23 Speaker 2: Yeah.

51:23 Speaker 14: Yeah, they're like, that's not it just like the song on the radio.

51:27 Speaker 2: Oh thank you.

51:28 Speaker 14: I really appreciate that.

51:29 Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh that's cool. That's cool. Well, we are running out of time. I do want to play one more song, but I also want to make sure very very important. Where should our listeners go? Where's the best place to go to keep up with everything that you.

51:43 Speaker 14: Are, everything that you that I'm doing. You guys can find everything on Facebook. You can add me right on Facebook, Stephen de Keier. You can also add my music page just Steven de Keer Music. Okay, I'm going to be having Matt Hunterton build me a website pretty soon talking about off the air absolutely, and yeah, you can find out where I'm playing every single month. I post all my monthly dates, weekly dates as well. You'll find out where I'm playing every single weekend, okay, and all the fun stuff about my own music coming out.

52:11 Speaker 2: And you should definitely spell your last name for our listeners.

52:13 Speaker 14: Yes, my last name is spelled d E c U I r E and it's pronounced Q.

52:19 Speaker 2: Is that a rare name?

52:20 Speaker 14: It's French Canadian? Yeah, there are a lot of Yeah, I think it's like from like Louisiana. Oh really, yeah, yeah, you find it a lot in Louisiana.

52:29 Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I have a very rare last name, you do. There are very very few Connortons. Yes, there is another Matt Connorton right here in New Hampshire, but he's yeah, but he's my uncle, so it kind of doesn't and then I did find another Matt Connorton somewhere else, but he spells it co O N and E R t o n okay, which actually is the more common common spelling spell, even though there's very few. There's just very few contortants. Generally. There are some contortants in the Boston area. Yeah, but I think they all spell it c O N and E R t O N. So yeah, I have a very I was joking at the top of the show saying, you know, there's gonna be a new website Matt Connorton dot Live.

53:04 Speaker 2: And I was saying to Jenny, I said, uh, this might surprise you, but it's very easy to get a domain with Matt Connorton in it.

53:14 Speaker 14: Because nobody else.

53:20 Speaker 2: There's no other Matt Connorton on the website certainly, so it's very very easy. All right. So, Stephen de Cure, thank you so much, Thank you very much, appreciate it. This has been absolutely wonderful. And what should we play to close out the segment?

53:32 Speaker 14: Well, what do you think? And we were talking off the air about Quiet Moments being in that upcoming film.

53:38 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, anything more that you can You were telling.

53:41 Speaker 14: Us my friend Catherine Taylor. She she had messaged me after our last interview on here about Quiet Moments when I played that live on the air, and she said, we absolutely love Quiet Moments. She goes, and we have a spot, a particular scene in a film that I'm working on a direct right now that we think Quiet Moments would go great and oh wow, and she asked me if they could put it in the film. I said, yes, so waiting, I'll probably here back in about a week or two and I'll know all the details for it.

54:12 Speaker 2: Oh fantastic.

54:13 Speaker 14: Guys, want to just follow me on Facebook. You guys will find out all about that as well.

54:17 Speaker 2: Outstanding. Oh that's very exciting. So that's a perfect way to end the segment. So we will end with this Quiet Moments. If you are listening live on Saturday stick around. Coming up in our number three, we have Charles Richardson joining us online all the way from the great state of Florida. He is the host of the Charles Richardson Show. And we're going to be talking about WrestleMania Weekend. It is upon us. So I look forward to that and I hope you do as well. But we will close out with this Quiet moments.

54:45 Speaker 2: The album or I'm Sorry. The EP is one I towards the Sun and this is the great Stephen to cure Stephen again. Thank you so much, you.

54:54 Speaker 14: Guys very much. I appreciate it.

55:18 Speaker 3: Quiet moments, all the hours riding my ben runs over.

55:41 Speaker 3: Fill these pages with the stories. Rangel your way, sing for me looking out my windows. The song reads the day,

56:09 Speaker 3: birds of singing, playing tree to tree. Writing songs come so weeks. It's writing by me, Just be me, play the skids day and tune night.

56:51 Speaker 2: Create that by high.

56:55 Speaker 11: I know.

57:03 Speaker 18: Fill these pages.

57:06 Speaker 15: With joy, both store hories.

57:14 Speaker 9: Arranging your way, sing for me.

57:25 Speaker 3: Looking out my window is the clouds cover.

57:28 Speaker 14: Of the day. The wind is going, ringing.

57:33 Speaker 12: Song and sway.

57:37 Speaker 3: Writing songs come sweezs me so rided by majes beardy,

58:25 Speaker 3: quiet moments, old houses, sempty nor onsn. Fill these pages.

58:50 Speaker 15: With lone stories.

58:59 Speaker 9: Range of your way, she foll me.